Improved composition for destroying vermin



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

SALOMON ROSE, OF CINCINNATI, OHIO.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 42.795, dated May 17, 1864.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SALOMON ROSE, of Oincinnuti, Hamilton county, Ohio, have invented a new and useful Composition for the Destruction of Rats, Mice, and other Vermin; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear,a-nd exact description thereofland of the mode of compounding the same.

I mix a quarter of an ounce of stick-phosphorus in a table-spoonful of warm water and stir the same into halfa pint of cold water. 1 then take a pound offlour and convert the same into a paste by briskly Working it in the above sALoMoN nose;

Witnesses:

GEo. H. KNIGHT, JAMES H. LAYMAN. 

